Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Okay, so you're likely already working on selecting your New Year's resolution for your personal life. But, have you identified your New Year's resolution for your workplace life?

Mentor 65

Mentor Micromanagement Consensus Policies 65

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

The result, Heavy Metal Management, was Sweden's best-selling book this past Christmas season, racking up 10,000 electronic downloads in the first two weeks of January alone. 4) Focus more on collaborative models of labor-management relations aimed at increasing employee engagement. But why take their word for it? POWER TO THE PEOPLE.

McKinsey 8

McKinsey Consensus Management Short-term 8

Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Some people may report to the same manager, but legitimately have little reason to work interactively as a team. Help team members prioritize all the behaviors on the charts (many will be the same or similar) and (using consensus) determine the two most important behaviors to change (for all team members). 1-858-759-0950.

Team Building 137

Team Building Team Teamwork Survey 137

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

Roughly 80% of serious medical errors (now the third leading cause of death in the United States behind heart disease and cancer) can be traced to poor communication between care providers during patient handoffs, according to a 2012 Joint Commission report. This makes patient handoffs the most frequent and riskiest procedure in the hospital.

Long-term 8

Long-term Janis Quality Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

The motivation behind it, as with many, many articles published over HBR's nearly 90-year history, was to take an effective practice developed in one corner of industry and spread it to managers everywhere. Did it surprise him to find that there was so little consensus on the best way to solve the problem of assigning a cost to capital?

CAPM 14

CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow Cost of Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Although policymakers agreed that the measures were necessary to prevent the Euro from breaking up under the pressure of the crisis, they came too late to save the Eurozone from its second recession in 2012. economy are asking whether we learned enough from the 2008 crisis about how to manage risk in the financial system.

Crisis 8

Crisis Policies GDP Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

As the Institute of Medicine highlighted in a 2012 report , this gap in knowledge contributes to variation in care and suboptimal outcome. Another strategy is to translate consensus clinical guidelines to standardized practice protocols with clinical decision support algorithms (e.g. The path forward is clear.

Information Technology 8

Information Technology Technology Peer Review Information 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

Between February and September of 2012 Kaggle hosted two competitions sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation about computer grading of student essays. In many cases, these demonstrably capable and successful data scientists acquired their expertise in new and decidedly digital ways. They needn't have worried.

Productivity 15

Productivity Products Consensus Health Care 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2013

Lazear went on to describe how economists, with the University of Chicago's Gary Becker leading the way , had been running roughshod over the other social sciences — using economic tools to study crime, the family, accounting, corporate management, and countless other not strictly economic topics.

Tversky 10

Tversky Crisis Levitt Consensus 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2016

There was a consensus that CSR focuses more on boosting employee morale than addressing the way a company engages with society’s concerns. One big problem is CSR departments lack the participation of big-spending commercial functions and the input of managers on the ground who better understand the local context.

Company 8

Company McKinsey Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Fast forward to 2012. These documents define what R&D projects they want to carry out, assign responsibility for them, and give direction to the next level down: the project managers. Suppose you were the project manager,' I said. Before long there was a consensus that a lot of the detail was not very helpful.

Project 8

Project Document Consensus Follow-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

So during initial rollout from May 2012 through February 2014, we examined 80,000 BHDP surveys in four military-treatment facilities. Practice managers can more efficiently and effectively use their providers to meet the needs of their patient base.

Health Care 8

Health Care System Report Information Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Before the financial crisis ushered in the current global economic downturn, there was a strong intellectual consensus among mainstream economists and policymakers about the merits of free trade. At the current rate, 2012 will easily see more disputes than in the two previous years combined.

Crisis 8

Crisis Policies Globalization Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

Globalization 11

Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The change has not gone unremarked by management's leading thinkers. In research led by Ashridge Business School and the International Business Leaders' Forum to be published later in 2012, we've been exploring this emerging new approach to leadership. align social and environmental objectives with financial goals (81%).

Globalization 14

Globalization NGO Leadership Development Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2015

When he managed to beat a reform-minded opponent by just 243 votes (four of which cast by ghost-voters purporting to live at the address of Bauler`s own tavern) he made a declaration that still lives today: “Chicago ain’t ready for reform.” economy $1.5 billion a week. Yes, a week. So what’s the holdup?

Innovation 8

Innovation Technology System Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2014

And the more growth opportunities stretch beyond a company’s current capabilities, the more the company needs to build systems to manage the unique nature of these opportunities (the kind we describe in more depth in our recent article “ Build an Innovation Engine in 90 Days ” and our 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory ).

Innovation 8

Innovation Company Venture Capitalist Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

hospitals from treating Medicare patients escalated sharply in 2012, when Congress included Medicare in its budget sequester, and they have remained high since. If hospitals do not aggressively manage the cost of caring for Medicare patients against these fixed payments, losses result. The losses of U.S. Insight Center.

Cost 8

Cost Consensus Budgeting System 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

From our own experiences in researching numerous companies and managing corporate social investments in several countries, we argue it is time companies recognize the importance of managing the social risks of big capital projects as effectively as they manage their operational risks.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

It involves too many people When a strategic plan needs to finely calibrate the moves of loosely controlled business units and achieve consensus, then it often makes sense to include a wide range of stakeholders in the discussions. Industry upheaval often calls for tough choices, and consensus will not be possible.

Strategy 14

Strategy CEO Strategic Planning Consensus 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2012

As she navigated through spreadsheets and dashboard screens — each created by a different person for a different purpose — the only constant was the title of the report, "2012 Actuals." Everyone from product managers, to call center reps, to the front-line worker in the branch or store uses information to make decisions.

Business Intelligence 14

Business Intelligence Budgeting Report Library 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2013

Desai , a professor and dean at Harvard Business School, a professor at Harvard Law School, and the author of a 2012 HBR article on taxing businesses , a few questions about how this investigation fits into a larger debate about the corporate tax code. Richard Harvey, in earlier testimony, said that the company managed to avoid about $7.7

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Incentives System GAAP 8

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Fast forward to 2012: President Obama cried at a meeting with his campaign staff. No matter where you stand on the issue of crying, as a manager, if you have not already, you’ll be faced with a crying employee. Managers, when faced with a crying employee, would either run away in fear or do something stupid or insensitive, or both.

Chemicals 255

Chemicals Consensus Sports Follow-up 255

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Even in an era of bitter partisanship, there’s consensus that the U.S. multinationals like GE have managed to pay less than nothing some years in federal corporate income taxes. This is the question of tax “incidence,” and in the case of corporate taxes there’s no real consensus. The maximum U.S.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Consensus Policies Ryan 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

For the past decade, the consensus strategy among hospital and health-system leaders has been to achieve scale in regional markets via mergers and acquisitions, to make medical staffs employees, and to assume more financial risk in insurance contracts and sponsored health plans. The following areas deserve special management attention.

System 8

System Insurance Health Care Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

billion, or 17% of settlements, in 2012. Wachter wrote in 2011 , a consensus has developed among academics that fraud on the market is “not just flawed, second-best, misdirected, or in need of improvement, but flat-out senseless, mindless, and reasonless.”. Economy Finance Risk management' Bratton and Michael L.

Training 8

Training Class Efficiency Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 17, 2013

government, instead giving Treasury the freedom during World War I to manage the country's debts as it saw fit, within bounds set by Congress. There is pretty widespread consensus that, without serious action to bring government spending and revenue in line, the U.S.

Politics 8

Politics Tactics Budgeting Crisis 8